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Catalogue description Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Ridsdale's Miscellaneous Books
| Reference: | J 37 |
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| Title: | Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Ridsdale's Miscellaneous Books |
| Description: |
Miscellaneous Books transferred from the chambers of Master Arthur Francis Ridsdale, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1912 until his death in 1935. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Arthur Francis Ridsdale (1912-1935) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk were Master Henry Templar Prior (1907-1911), Master William Binns Smith (1874-1906) and, for causes with initial letters A-F, Master Alfred Hall (1852-1873). These books relate mainly to accounts arising from the administration of estates and to company winding-up proceedings. |
| Date: | 1855-1907 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in The National Archives: | C 338 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Court of Chancery, 1875 Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875- |
| Physical description: | 47 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
in 1914 Arthur Risdale, 1912-1935 |
| Selection and destruction information: | The documents, which originated with his predecessors, are the survivors of a weeding exercise carried out by the court under the terms of a Destruction Schedule of 14 July 1913, Statutes, Rules and Schedules governing the disposal of Public Records by destruction or otherwise 1877-1913, HMSO, London, 1914, pp 192-194. |
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